Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory.

These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to his impressive body of work. Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time.

Lines from Langston Hughes’s poetry are interspersed with the visuals. And beneath that, Hughes’s ashes are scattered. Taken in 1991 by New York Times photographer Chester Higgins Jr. at the ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

Two children in another area of the world were ... Mr. Kozol said that he had never met Langston Hughes but that a short while after his much publicized firing he had received a new collection ...

Langston Hughes sits at his typewriter with a cigarette hanging out ... and also working with black men and women and children and cities that he photographed.” Dorothy Davis sees her work with her ...

In 1991, the pair bopped at an event celebrating the opening of the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, a moment captured in an ...